TIL around 15% of active Twitter accounts are social bots. This means there are nearly 48 million accounts that are not controlled by humans.
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TIL that Denmark held a general election during German occupation in 1943. In a disappointing result for the occupiers, the Danish Nazi Party won just 2.1% of the vote.
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TIL, Edward Norton is a stalwart supporter in raising awareness and fights against illegal poaching of elephants and rhinoceroses, raising $1.2 million after running the NYC marathon to support the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust
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Edward Norton
American actor and filmmaker
TIL "Point Blank Range" is not necessarily a close shot, but the range at which a gun can shoot directly at a target without any elevation of the barrel.
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Submitted April 13, 2020 at 07:08PM by SuperMcG
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Point-blank range
distance at which a firearm or projectile can be fired directly at its target and hit
TIL Naomi Watts' father, Peter, was a roadie for Pink Floyd, who died of a heroin overdose when she was 7. Pink Floyd provided financial support to the family.
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Submitted April 13, 2020 at 10:01PM by AbrahamRinkin
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Peter Watts (road manager)
English road manager and sound engineer
TIL: The UN Child Convention, which protects children (people under 18), has been accepted by all 195 countries in the world, except South Sudan and the United States.
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Submitted April 13, 2020 at 10:12PM by Kranium77
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UN News
UN lauds Somalia as country ratifies landmark children’s rights treaty
The United Nations today applauded Somalia’s ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) – a move which was praised as being an “important step” towards protecting and promoting
TIL that in 1969, Woodstock ran out of food after its first day and relied upon donations from the largely conservative residents of Sullivan County, New York to feed 400,000 hungry hippies
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Smithsonian Magazine
Woodstock—How to Feed 400,000 Hungry Hippies
A case can be made for calling the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, which happened 40 years ago this weekend (August 15-17, 1969), the defining event of the hippie generation. An even better case can be made that granola, which was popularized at the festival…
TIL: Howard Buffet, son of Billionaire Warren Buffet's, has donated untold millions in wildlife conservation, with his largest donation being $24m in 2014 to Kruger National Park in South Africa to purchase military grade helicopters and reconnaissance drones to track illegal poaching
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Reuters
U.S. philanthropist Howard Buffett takes aim at rhino poaching
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - American philanthropist Howard G. Buffett donated $24 million to South Africa’s national parks service on Friday to fund a high-tech campaign against rhino poaching which he compared to the United States’ war on drugs on its southern…
TIL Jimmy Carter said if he became president, he would release all government UFO information to the public. Once elected, he decided not to due to "national security concerns"
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HISTORY
Jimmy Carter files report on UFO sighting
Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) on September 18, 1973, claiming he had seen
TIL about Chartreuse, The liqueur has been made by the Carthusian Monks since 1737 according to the instructions set out in a manunoscript given to them in 1605. It is composed of distilled alcohol aged with 130 herbs, plants and flowers. It continues to age and improve in the bottle.
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Chartreuse (liqueur)
Chartreuse (US: /ʃɑːrˈtruːz, -ˈtruːs/ (listen), UK: /-ˈtrɜːz/, French: [ʃaʁtʁøz]) is a French liqueur available in green and yellow versions that differ in taste and alcohol content. The liqueur has been made by the Carthusian Monks since 1737 according to…
TIL that the closest living relative of bears are seals
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Submitted April 14, 2020 at 01:56AM by finitewaves
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Bear
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae. They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere…
TIL of the Phoebus cartel, which controlled the global lightbulb market for over 15 years and worked to remove long-lasting bulbs from the market in order for lightbulb manufacturers to profit more
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Phoebus cartel
Cartel to control the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs
TIL about the existence of the Kermode bear (aka the Spirit bear) which is a rare subspecies of the Black bear. 10%-20% of individuals are born white and there are only between 100 and 500 left in the wild. They are basically white Black bears.
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Kermode bear
subspecies of the American Black Bear, British Columbia, Canada
TIL that Gin & Tonic originated in India to make quinine, a traditional cure for malaria more palatable for the British army stationed in the region.
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Gin and tonic
highball cocktail made with gin and tonic water
TIL Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. His most famous work was a six volume memoir about WW2, but he also wrote a science fiction alternate history story about the US Civil War.
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Sf-Encyclopedia
Authors : Churchill, Winston S : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia
Welcome to the third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms.
TIL Johnny Cash once got into a fight with an Ostrich that sent him to the hospital with broken ribs and a laceration on his stomach.
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Groovy History
Johnny Cash: True Stories Of The Wildman In Black
When it comes to the late Johnny Cash, true stories that sound like myths are plentiful. Cash was a country outlaw who partied like a rock star before it was even a thing. He struggled with drug addiction, he started a forest fire, he fought an ostrich, he…
TIL in 1596, Abraham Ortelius, recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, noticed the shapes of continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean (most notably, Africa and South America) seem to fit together. He was the first to theorize the Continental Drift.
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Abraham Ortelius
Flemish cartographer
TIL that Olivia De Havilland, who in 1939 starred in Gone with the Wind, is still alive. Born on the same day as the Battle of the Somme started, she is at 103 years old the oldest living Academy Awards winner.
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Olivia de Havilland
American actress
TIL that trained sniffer dogs are helping archaeologists in Croatia discover 3,000-year-old iron age tombs. Experts have said that using dogs are a good way to identify archaeological sites, as it is less destructive than many traditional methods.
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the Guardian
Dogs show a nose for archaeology by sniffing out 3,000 year old tombs
Trained canines help locate burial sites dating back to the iron age in Croatia
TIL the FDA has cleared the world’s first portable, low-cost MRI. It costs $50K USD which is 20x cheaper than traditional systems, runs on 35x less power, and weighs 10x less than normal 1.5T MRI machines.
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Health Imaging
FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI following positive clinical research
TIL as late as 2018 an 26 year old American missionary illegally attempted to christianize an isolated tribe living on an island of the indian ocean, and was killed shortly after landing. His body was not retrieved and no legal charges were pursued.
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